You’re right: it isn’t fair. The attempt to create support spaces for marginalized, disadvantaged, and/or threatened students is not a “movement.” It’s basic service provision with a history as long as that of the integration of historically excluded groups into higher education. What’s ridiculous is that people get…

Yeah, a commencement speech isn’t a conference paper or talk with Q&A — it’s a one-way exchange. A symbolically charged one at that. And students leading disinvitation efforts tend do so because they have encountered said speaker’s ideas.

Having worked in student services in higher ed, I couldn’t agree more. The term has been hijacked by people who have no idea what it means or how it functions (much like “social justice”) and who have completely drained it of its original meaning. It’s become interchangeable with “political correctness” as an…

Or if you’re Neil DeGrasse Tyson, just talk about the moon for 10 minutes then give all the graduates fist bumps at the end of the ceremony (no, I will not stop bragging about this...)

I wonder what the public discussion over “safe spaces” would look like if we first all attempted to agree on exactly what a “safe space” is. Because I feel like this issue is an excuse for people to free associate on what it sounds like to them and argue over the feelings it inspires, instead of, like, concrete…

Instead of a couple of days in Vegas, you can stay home for the weekend with a few bottles of Bacardi 151, Craigslist “casual encounters” open on your browser, and burn a bunch of money in the fireplace.

Epidurals are administered by anesthesiologists. Even if you are in a hospital and want one, they call in the anesthesiologist to do it. It taps directly into the spinal cord. You do NOT want anyone but a highly trained specialist doing that.

Proper training and regulation! Yay! Integration into the regular medical community! Woot!

Friend, I linked you to a list of legislation taking hatred of women and trying to codify it into law. THAT is the difference. I’m not trying to codify anything into law — these people loathe me and everything I stand for and am, but I still refuse to advocate for legislation to make their lives, their health, their…

They are, though. That’s exactly the demand. “Pander to me or I’ll vote Trump.”

Their reaction to my pain is why I’m so angry.

Ah yes, I forgot about my most important role as a woman in America: Keep your opinions to yourself and never ever put your own interests first, lest you alienate white male voters.

Good tip! Planned Parenthood is also very pro IUD.

I called my Kaiser office and asked who did the most insertions. My doc did several per day. It was less uncomfortable than a regular pap (I was postpartum but my cervix had closed)

I find that violent revenge fantasies are very healing. I still, when I have trouble sleeping, even for unrelated reasons, find myself running a particularly nice revenge fantasy involving a roundhouse kick and an open elevator shaft for one of my abusers. But not from too high up. Why kill ‘em when you can leave them…

She is definitely not alone in that — I feel like fantasizing about horrible things befalling people who hurt you can be a normal part of the healing process (as I write that, I realize how completely sick that sounds?).

Your emphasis twice on accuser says everything. Sorrell went to the administration because Choudhry was sexually harassing her. Guess what? Unwanted kissing and hugging is harassment, if that's all there was. Sorrell filed a lawsuit because the school was more worried about ruining one of their owns career than…

I find the arc of this narrative so interesting: not the particular case, but the integration of a psychoanalytic term into the public vernacular in a way it was never intended to be used.

Had I known that my fate could turn on her reckless conduct, I could and would have pursued other options to preserve my future and protect my wife and children.

“Choudhry filed a letter of grievance last week, which argues that comments by Berkeley President Janet Napolitano have left his public reputation in tatters.”